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Good reasons for bad feelings : insights from the frontier of evolutionary psychiatry Cover Image Book Book

Good reasons for bad feelings : insights from the frontier of evolutionary psychiatry

Nesse, Randolph M. (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781101985663
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    xv, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Dutton, 2019.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject: Mental illness -- Etiology
Mental illness -- Genetic aspects
Psychiatry -- History

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Preface xiii
PART ONE Why Are Mental Disorders So Confusing?
1 A New Question
Why has natural selection left us so vulnerable to mental disorders?
3(14)
2 Are Mental Disorders Diseases?
Psychiatric diagnosis is confused because it doesn't distinguish symptoms from diseases, and it incorrectly assumes that each disorder has a specific cause
17(12)
3 Why Are Minds So Vulnerable?
Six evolutionary reasons explain vulnerability to diseases
29(16)
PART TWO Reasons for Feelings
4 Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Emotions were shaped to cope with situations
45(22)
5 Anxiety and Smoke Detectors
Useless anxiety can be normal, as the Smoke Detector Principle reveals
67(17)
6 Low Mood and the Art of Giving Up
Mood adjusts behavior to the propitiousness of the situation
84(28)
7 Bad Feelings for No Good Reason: When the Moodostat Fails
Moodostat failures cause serious diseases
112(29)
PART THREE The Pleasures and Perils of Social Life
8 How to Understand an Individual Human Being
An individual's emotions and actions make sense only in the context of that person's idiosyncratic life goals and projects
141(19)
9 Guilt and Grief: The Price of Goodness and Love
Preferred partners get advantages that make morality possible
160(23)
10 Know Thyself-NOT!
Repression and cognitive distortions can be useful
183(18)
PART FOUR Out-of-Control Actions and Dire Disorders
11 Bad Sex Can Be Good-for Our Genes
Sexual problems are common for good evolutionary reasons
201(18)
12 Primal Appetites
Dieting spirals famine protection mechanisms into anorexia nervosa and bulimia
219(15)
13 Good Feelings for Bad Reasons
Substances hijack learning to create zombies
234(11)
14 Minds Unbalanced on Fitness Cliffs
Genes for schizophrenia and autism may persist because of cliff edges in the fitness landscape
245(17)
Epilogue: Evolutionary Psychiatry: A Bridge, Not an Island
How using all of biology can integrate psychiatry and make sense of mental illness
262(9)
Further Reading 271(2)
Notes 273(76)
Acknowledgments 349(4)
Index 353(12)
About the Author 365

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